Friday, May 29, 2015

SUNSPOTS IN THE WOODS

Sunspots wade across the forest floor.
Omitted tree and branch leaves
Publish and point out gap-streaming light that
Lingers until clock hands move and 
Change all the angles.

Trees fall, branches break, and
Empty spaces leave marks of different kinds that
Stretch across the earth or across my face.

Lost things spin out of place and disappear,
Unfound and forgotten in time;
Scars take their place--
Ephemeral light pale dashes that imply a
Back story of once upon a time
There were no missing pieces.
  
Highlight absence, draw a rough
Outline where the base of a trunk was set
In earth like a large foot and blotted the sunspots.


© cmheuer, 2015

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